Dumping-lever for ore-cars and the like.



P. R. STANHOPE.

DUMPING LEVER FOR ORE CARS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED 11017.25, 1911.

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' a lever having aforked end, which is adapt-1.

PHILIP R. STANH OPE, 0F DENVER C OLORADO.

DUMPING-LEVER FOB ORE-CARS AND THE LIKE.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed November 25,1911. Serial No. 662,447.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP'R. STANI-Iorn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city and county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Dumping-Levers for Ore-Cars and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in dumping levers for ore cars.

The object of the invention is to facilitate the dumping of such cars, by providing ed to be inserted in keepers bolted to the under side of the car, thereby to tilt the car and hold the same against a too sudden' dumping movement, and to restore the car to its normal position after the same has been dumped; the lever and car being connected by a chain which relieves the stress upon the lever when the car is being dumped. These objects are accomplished by the device illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a perspective view of a common form of ore car, showing the improved lever applied thereto. Fig. 2, is a perspective view of a portion of a car, showing the keepers secured to the bottom thereof for receiving the forked end of the dump lever. Fig. 3, is a plan view of the lever. Fig 4, is a side view thereof. Figs. 5 and 6, are respectively, aplan and a side view of a form of lever in which an ordinary plank is used for a handle. And Fig. 7 is a plan view of a further modification in which the keepers which receive the forked. end of the lever are secured upon the sides? of the car body, instead of upon the bottom thereof, and the fork bars of the handle are arranged with their edges in a vertiical direction, instead of in a horizontal direction and, Fig. 8 is a perspective view of I a portion of a car, showing keepers arranged on opposite sides thereof to receive the form of lever shown inFig. 7.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the body of an ore car of a style in common use; 2 indicates the truck upon which the .body is mounted; 3, the lock and release lever which is pivotally secured to the car; and 4:, a keeper on the end of the truck which receives the lower hooked end 5 of the lever 3, whereby the car is held in its normal or horizontal position when the said hooked end engages the keeper or is free to be dumped when the lever is moved to release its lower end from the said keeper. All of these parts or elements are in common'use and form no part of the present invention. There are two styles of these cars in use, namely, the side dump cars and the rear dump cars. I have illustrated a rear dump car, but it will be understood that the improved lever is applicable to both styles of cars.

The manner of hinging the car body to the truck also forms no part of the present invention, and itis not necessary to describe this feature, but only to mention that the bottom of the car, at a suitable point, is provided with hinge straps 6, which are united tosimilar hinge straps 7, on the truck, by a transverse pin or rod 8.

To the bottom of the car are bolted pairs of U-shaped keepers 9, the keepers in each pair being in line, and the pairs being arranged in parallel order.

In connection with a rear dump car as shown in the drawings, these keepers are positioned on the underside of the front end of the car, but in the case of a side dump car, the keepers are positioned midway of Patented Sept. 17, 1912.

the length of the car and opposite its dumping side.

The improved lever comprisesan arm or handle 10, approximately eight feet in length, and preferably made of a tough wood, such as ash or hickory, upon opposite sides of the forward end of which are bolted metal bars 11. The forward ends 12 of these'bars are spaced to correspond to the keepers 9, in which they are designed. to be inserted, each end portion 12 being of suflicient length to extend through a pairof the keepers. An angle bar 13 is bolted to these end portions 12 a suitable distance from their extremities, and serves both as a brace to prevent the bars from spreading, and also as a stop which engages the end or side of the car, as the case may be, when the lever is inserted in the keepers. From the angle bar 13, the bars 11 converge, as shown, and

and with the endportion 12, to form han-.

dle engaging members 15, andback of the bolt 14:, the members 15 arebent transversely and in opposite directions, as shown at 16,

to properly space them for. thereceptioni of the handle 10, to which thevrare bolted by bolts 17 and 18, the head of, thelatterfb olt being in the form of a hook l9.

The hook l9 is-adapted "to-receive one end of a chain 20, or other suitable flexible con+ nection, the opposite endiof which is provided with a suitable hook 21 which is adapted to engaget-he upper edge of the ,car when the lever is used. Thishook is preferably constructed from a metal bar ap proximately two inches-wide bywone-half inch thick, and long enough to allow it to be given a-deep U-shaped bend, one member of which is bent at right; angles, as shown at 22,-and provided with a hole-to receive the end link of the chain.

In practice, the dumping of ore cars is frequently rendered verylaborious, for various reasons, notably when the preponderance of the load weight is. on thewrong 1 side of the axis of the car, or when 'the'hinge connection between the carbody andtru'ck is strained or twisted, but in any case the improved lever is designed to so facilitate the dumping of the car, as to relieve the at-.

tendants of any undue exertion in connection therewith. I

It frequently happens that as the dumps, one or more large stones becomecaught between the door and the bottom of the car,the door being hinged at its upper" end so as to swing out-ward, as will be :understood, and -1Il ,tlns' event, the. car is often:

overbalanced and carried off of the track and onto the dump. But withthe. use of theydump lever, the car in its dumping movement is always under thecontrolof the attendants, and such accidents are therefore prevented.

In Figs. 5 and 6 isillustrated a form of lever, in which an arm or, handle 23 is formedof an ordinary plank of suitable di- 'mensions.

which are suitably spaced and bolted to the The fork comprises bars. 24:,

end of the plank by bolts 25. The bars 24L are braced against spreading, by plates 2.6 and 27, whichrest upon the said bars, and by plates 28, on the under side of the plank, the bolts 25 passing through these plates.

Q In Fig 7, a modificationis illustrated,-

in which the caris provided with keepers 29, which are boltedupon its sides adjacent to the bottom of the-,car, instead of being bolted upon the bottom of the, car. A lever 1 made up of bars 31, which are-secured to:

r the lever arm in any suitable: mannerpbut 30 is used in this case, the fork of whichis so that the width ofthe bars is iniaverti cal direction, instead of being in a horizontal direction, as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 6 in Patent, is: I 'L The combination with a dumping car of the lever, the same as in the form of lever shown in Figil.

In durnpmgafcanthe forked end of the --lever. is; inserted inf: the keepers, 1 and one end of the chain- 20=is secured to the hook 19 site endiispassed over the upper edge: of the car body, asolearly shown in Fig. 1. The

. outer end. of the :lever is then raised to cause the car to tilt, and as it swings over to the 'dumping position, its movement is governed by downward. pressure onthev lever,"which istransmitted to the car through the medium of .the chain 20, thusf relievin'gthe forked'end of the-leverand thekeepers of practically all of'the stress.

The lever is quickly.lattacheds=and detached, and is adaptable to cars in present use, by simplyproviding the cars with the keepers.

Havimrdescribed my inventiom what I claiimas new and desire to secure by. Letters having keepers, thereon, of-a dumping lever having a forked end adapted to enter the keepers, and a chain-connecting the lever with thetcar body.

2. The combination wit-hja dumping car having opposite pairs of keepers thereon, of a lever having a forked end adapted-to enter said keepers, a chain-connectedaton'e end to the lever, and a hook on the opposite end of the chain for engaging t'hecarbody.

8. :A lever for theipurposespecified;comprising anarm which terminates n a forked end, and a chain secured at one end to the lever'and having a hook on its oppositeiend.

4. A lever for the purposespecified; comprising anarm; bars secured to one end of the arm and bent to provide spaced, parallel extremities; a.-bar connecting said'parallel port-ionsa suitable distance from their outer ends; and azchain secured at one-end'to said lever and having a hook on its oppositeend.

5. The combination with a dumping car having U-shapedykeepers on its-bottom, of

a fork adapted torbe inserted in the keepers; a bar-connecting the members of the fork; a leverarm connected:tothefrear'end of the I fork; and a chain securedat one end to the lever arm and having a hook on itsopposite end for, engagingtheedg e o'f thecar. I

.6; The combination "with a dumping car having keepers on its under side, of a dumping lever for said car comprising an arm;

metal bars secured to opposite sides of one on the lever, while the hook 21 on its oppoend of the arm and bent to present spaced, In testimony whereof I aflix my signature parallel forward members; a bar connecting in presence of two Witnesses.

said parallel members a hook on said arm n and a chain connected at one end to th PHILIP SlANHOPE' hook, and having a hook on its opposite Witnesses:

end, adapted to engage the upper edge of G. SARGENT Ermc'r'r,

the car body. ELIZ.\BETH SMITH.

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